domingo, 30 de octubre de 2011

Using Graphs and other Visuals
















Just picture is worth a thousand words, a good visual replaces a thousand words. It's important for users to produce high-end graphics that are intuitive and easy to understand. For instance data mining plays an important role in producing visualizations. With piles and piles of data available, it allows to find trends and stories in their data. Also a market analysis can find patterns in data identifying which products are commonly purchased together in groceries stores. In both cases the tools more useful could be a pie chart or bar chart.
Nowadays computers give the ability to generate powerful visuals, but it is up to the user to understand the data and use the most accurate graphic for the data. It's unethical to use graphics to mislead people with a visual that uses made-up or skewed data to support an agenda. One way to validate graphs is to try several different types and determine if the visualizations are similar.
Visuals help make numbers meaningful and thus help communicate your points.
In this blog you will find some tips that is going to help you to identify with graph is good for your visual, what aspects you should into account during an oral presentation among other things.

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